Virtual Sculpting

I know I've been a bit lax with my comics lately. The reason is simply that we have had a bit too much living going on lately for me to find the time to write about it! Spring is in the air, and that means I'm being drawn out of my hibernation and back into my garden and the parks. Sierra and I started going to park days again with other homeschoolers, and last week we had our first nature class of spring, where she got to dissect an owl pellet. (My family has been kidding me all week because I keep telling friends and family that we were going to do owl dissection. The word "pellet" kept slipping out of the description!)

I do have something to show you today. Chase took some screen shots of the work he's been doing. Click on the photo for a larger image.

► One of the first creatures he made was the Demented Monkey Thingamabobbin. Remember that these pictures only give one view of the character. In order to "sculpt" it, it has to be turned and viewed from each angle. That can be frustrating when you think you are doing well with one side and then turn it to find that another side is deformed and wonky.


 ◄ This is one of my favorites, a dinosaur cowboy he called Steve the Gunnasaurus.

 Kainda is a Yordle. It's a character he made up for the League of Legends universe. He spent a lot of time finding just the right name for the character. Kainda is an African name meaning hunter's daughter. He wrote an entire background for her that relates to the game. These two pictures show the character and then the skeleton he created for her.▼



The yellow darts in the second picture are inverse kinematics. They help the skeleton and the model recognize a solid surface and stop it from sinking into the ground.